Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] for [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the fourth century BC the Greek city of Cyzicus ( quite near the Bosporus ) made peculiarly archaic-looking coins of electrum , and these seem to have been intended for financing the corn trade between the Black Sea and Greece , as we can surmise from finds of them and from inscriptions . |
| 2 | Bernadette had been sacked for cheeking the nurse . |
| 3 | Our Bank Assistant members could have been forgiven for entering the Labour Court with some misgivings but with a good deal of hope . |
| 4 | Even now , the only substantial reason I have been given for stopping the work , is that BW themselves propose to upgrade the towpath along the whole length . |
| 5 | In addition , its oil exploration activities in the Ecuadorian Amazon has been blamed for damaging the hunting economy of the Waorani , Quichua , Siona , Secoya and Cofan Indians , by driving away wildlife and polluting soil and water . |
| 6 | The flights have been blamed for disturbing the game on which the Innu depend , and there are reports that pregnant women have miscarried as a result of the noise . |
| 7 | Coffee has been blamed for increasing the pulse rate and for interfering with the efficiency of the digestive process . |
| 8 | This insert was cloned as a dimer within the Sma I site of the pUC19 polylinker and has previously been used for studying the effect of actinomycin on the structure of the surrounding blocks of A n . |
| 9 | That enabled Senna to qualify in fifth place and on race day his tactical mastery helped him to victory for a record sixth time , Alain Prost had been penalised for jumping the start . |
| 10 | In the late 1980s we now see town planning and architecture — shapers of the housing environment — charged with professional disrepute : once the great hope of being effective providers of an environment of social purpose , the two professions have been derided for giving the public the wrong thing , and in the wrong manner . |
| 11 | Funds from the Benian Trust had been earmarked for renovating the car parking areas at the recreation ground and to reinstate the service road between the putting green and tennis courts . |
| 12 | The implementation of privatization legislation was delayed due to a decision on Nov. 6 by the Czech Minister for Privatization , Tomas Jezek , who said that too little time had been allowed for compiling the list of companies suitable for privatization . |
| 13 | On the other hand , he could not remember a time when it had not been taken for granted the Hall would one day be his own . |
| 14 | The DTI has been criticised for underestimating the number of children injured each year by fireworks . |
| 15 | Fortunately , various purely psychological methods have been devised for studying the organisation of the mental lexicon in normal subjects , and some of these will be discussed in this chapter . |
| 16 | However , recently , new techniques have been devised for studying the behaviour of embryonic cells in their normal environment in the conceptus during these stages of development . |
| 17 | That Sirteco was obliged to do no more than inform the foreign commerce ministry that the waste disposal contract had been paid for illustrates the failure of the Italian government to monitor the international activities of waste disposal companies . |